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A habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.
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Any of several villages in England.
A hamlet in Slapton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9192).
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Any of several villages in England.
A village in Portland parish, Dorset (OS grid ref SY6972).
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Any of several villages in England.
A hamlet in Yarkhill parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6144).
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Any of several villages in England.
A hamlet in Wickhambreaux parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2361).
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Any of several villages in England.
A small village and civil parish (served by Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7379).
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Any of several villages in England.
A large village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4090).
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A suburb of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9800).
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A place in the United States:
A town in Allegany County, New York.
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A place in the United States:
A city in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
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A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in James City County, Virginia.
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A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
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A place in the United States:
A number of townships, in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, listed under Grove Township.
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A municipality in Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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A rural locality in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
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noun
A small forest.
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A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
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Synonyms: woodland
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An orchard of fruit trees.
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noun
A place of worship.
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Topics: Wicca, lifestyle, religion
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A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
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verb
To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
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verb
To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
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Topics: business, forestry
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verb
To plough or gouge with lines.
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noun
garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
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Synonyms: woodlet, orchard, plantation
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Broader terms: garden
Narrower terms: apple orchard, lemon grove, orange grove, peach orchard
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a small growth of trees without underbrush
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Broader terms: forest, wood, woods
History
* As an English surname, from the noun grove. * As a French surname, Americanized from Le Groux, Le Greux, reduced from Gréoul, of Germanic origin, from *grēduz (“hunger”) + *wulfaz (“wolf”). * As a north German surname, from the Low German noun Graf (“ditch, grave”) (see grave). Also a Dutch and Low German form of Grub. * As a German surname, variant of Graf.
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”). Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
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